Stock-car



(No Model.)

G. D. BURTON.

STOCK OAR.

Patented Apr. 1

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. BURTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOCK-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 424,598, dated. April 1,1890.

Application filed March 23, 1889. Serial No. 304.460. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. BURTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in. the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Stock-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention. relates to stock-cars, and has for its object to provide means co-operating with outwardly-du mpin g feed-troughs,whereby when the feed-troughs are in their dumped position no foreign matter can lodge in their seats or can interfere with the proper operation of said feed-troughs.

My invention consists,essentially, in providing a suitable seat or support for holding the f eed-trou ghs in th ei r horizontal position,which support is so constructed that no foreign matter can lodge thereupon or clog up the seat of the feed-trough, such construction being fully described hereinafter, and its points of novelty being specifically set forth in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse central vertical section through a stock-car of improved construction, showing my invention there applied. Fig. 2 is a horizontal transverse section taken 011 the line so 00, Fig. 1. 3 is a detail View of 1nyinvention.

Like letters of reference refer to like or corresponding parts in the several views of the drawings.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the feed-troughs, suitably journaled upon a longitudinal shaft, and provided with pitmen ct a, which in turn are connected by a system of levers to a single hand lever B, extending through the roof of the car, whereby the trainmen may, by a single movement thereof, outwardly dump the feed-troughs A.

As shown in Fig. 1, the feedtroughs are in their horizontal position and are partly supported by their journals and also partly supported by the two parallel plates or strips B B,which latter extend longitudinally and parallel with each other from the end of the car to the central door on each side, and are socured to each other by the nuts and bolts shown. The two strips or plates B B are so placed that the feed-troughs, when the latter are in their normal horizontal position, rest upon the top edges of said plates B B.

The plates or strips B B may be of any strong and durable material-such as iron or wood-and are formed as thin as possible, as shown in Fig. 3, so that no foreign matter could lodge upon their upper edges. These plates are secured at their respective extremr ties to the vertical standards or braces G of the frame-work of the car-side, and, as before stated, they are rigidly secured together in parallelism by the nuts and bolts 1) a, respectively. By means of this latter construction the plates B B may be tightened at will by,;, adjusting the nuts D Z which latter are, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, placed on both sides of each plate B.

Inasmuch as the contour of the feed-troughs is convex, it might be preferable in practice to have the inner plate B of slightly greater height than the outer plate, so that the top edges of both. plates may rest in contact with and support the curved sides of the feedtroughs when the latter are in the position shown in Fig. 1.

Owing to the fact that the plates B B are separated a certain distance by the bolts b b and that the upper edges of said plates 13 B are made narrow or thin, no foreign matter could lodge in the seats of the feed-troughs, but, on the other hand, would pass through the two plates downwardly. Thus by this construction the object of my invention is fulfilled.

Having thus described 1nyinvent-ion,whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 15-- 1. The combination, with a lOtElllEtbbjOlll naled feed-trough, of a support or seat for said fced trough, consisting of two vertical parallel plates coextensive with said feedtrough, substantially as described.

The combination of a rotatablyjournaled feed-trough, of a support or seat thereplates being higher than the other, substanro for, consistingof two vertical parallel plates tially as described.

coextensive with the feed-troughs, separated In testimony whereof I affix my signature in from each other a certain distance, and adpresence of two Witnesses.

justably secured together.

3. The combination of a rotatablyjour- GEO. D. BURTON. naled feed-trough, of a support or seat there- Witnesses: for, consisting of two vertical parallel plates CHESTER MARE,

coextensive With the feed-troughs, one of said CHARLES HOWARD 

